Iluvioc says "the deal is done"

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Thanks for pointing that out, Petrengr.

That adds one more reason to conclude that an agreement has been reached. I don't know what remaining contingencies remain, perhaps only approval by PNG, or final signatures, or something else that precludes it from being a legally defined "material event", but a deal has been reached, IMHO. Other reasons that lead to that conclusion are Hession's comments during the recent CC, the recent guidance by MS which indicates that they have been released from their CA, the substantial increase in the pps this past week, the abnormally high volume this past week.

I add to those reasons, "my gut feel" which processes all the other minor things that I can't adequately quantify or qualify.